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Billionaires targeted in Twitter bitcoin scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
Billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates were among the household names that had their Twitter accounts hacked to promote a bitcoin scam. The official Twitter accounts of many notable people, including former President Barrack Obama ...

Chief economist update: Stop right now, thank you very much

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
"The Australian economy is fighting back." Prime Minister Scott Morrison's declaration referring to the bounce back in the Australian labour market wouldn't have rung hollow had it not been for the second wave in Victoria - the country's ...

Litigation funding fight heats up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
The Senate Parliamentary Joint Committee, Corporations and Financial Services looking into litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry sparked a heated debate today. Menzies Research Centre chief of staff James Mathias was questioned ...

Global infrastructure proves profitable: LGIAsuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
LGIAsuper has recorded a 14.67% return from its ISQ Infrastructure fund in its latest quarterly figures. The fund is operated by global infrastructure interment manager I Squared Capital (ISQ) and LGIAsuper has invested around $368 million. The relationship ...

Best performing managed funds revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
Funds from IOOF, Vanguard and Fiducian figure among the top-five performers among wholesale funds, in the latest Rainmaker Information tables to May end. In the growth category, IOOF MultiMix Growth Trust took the top spot with returns of 7.1% pa over ...

ERS surges $7bn in a week

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
Early Release of Super payments surged around $7 billion in the first week of July, according to Treasury estimates, but this may not be a reason to panic. Treasury estimates a further $7 billion was wiped from super funds as the second tranche of applications ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
A Monash University lecturer has pushed the case for a GST holiday, which he argues is the most effective way to generate "maximum economic bang for the government's buck". In an opinion piece for The Conversation, economics lecturer Isaac Gross argued ...

APRA warns of ERS second wave

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
APRA has warned it is expecting high volumes of applications for the start of the second tranche of COVID-19 Early Release of Super scheme. The regulator said it is expecting a second wave of applications as Australians rush to remove a further $10,000 ...

Favour turns to active management

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
Amid the market volatility the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in, a new survey has revealed that sentiment is turning in favour of active investment management. The Natixis Investment Managers survey found that 79% of finance professionals globally and 78% ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
"This is a once-in-a-100 year type event, we haven't seen this sort of thing in Australia since the end of the first World War..." This was how Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the coronavirus outbreak shortly after the World Health ...